This privacy policy describes how King Features, a division of Hearst Holdings, Inc. ("King"), treats the personally identifiable information that is collected about you when you visit the web site to which this policy is linked, and the information collected on King's behalf to the extent King uses third-party service providers to host the web site or collect information about site users.
What is Personally Identifiable Information:
"Personally identifiable Information" is information that we (King) can use to identify you as an individual. Personally identifiable Information includes your name, address, telephone number, and any other information that is connected with you personally.
Information This Privacy Policy Does Not Apply To:
This privacy policy does not apply to information collected about you by anyone other than us (and any third party service providers acting on our behalf) and only applies to the popeye.com/newsletter web site. Any information you provide when you visit web sites other than those covered by this policy or when you purchase any products or services that may be offered or advertised on our web site by companies other than us is subject to the privacy policies posted on such sites by our affiliates, or, as applicable, the third party organizations who run and/or own these web sites. This policy also does not apply to information you may provide to us offline.
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information:
We collect no personally identifying information about our users unless they knowingly provide us with some. For instance, when you enter a sweepstakes or contest, complete a survey, make a purchase or subscribe to our newsletters, you are asked to provide information such as your e-mail address, name, phone number, and sometimes shipping address. Optional information such as your age or gender may also be requested.
We use this information to provide you with the service you have requested. If you subscribe to any of our newsletters, we may use your e-mail address to send it to you. Similarly, if you enter online sweepstakes, we will use this information to notify you if you are a winner.
We may also use any personal information you send, such as name, ago, location, and personal preferences, for marketing and promotional purposes and we may share your personal information with third parties who may choose to contact you to promote their own goods and services. If you want us to stop using your personal information in this way, please let us know by sending an e-mail request to popeyewebmaster@hearst.com.
When you enter a contest on our site, we may give your personal information to the contest sponsor who may also use it, and allow others to use it, for marketing purposes.
Any time we pass your information to a third party, we expect them to follow privacy policies just like we do, but that is not guaranteed. We do not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of these third parties.
We may place a "cookie" (a small file that contains no personal information) in your computer's browser file, which helps us gather information about your use of the site to better serve all our visitors, and which enables us to provide you some of the games and features on our site.
We may share or disclose personally identifiable information about you to other companies or individuals when:
- you have not notified us that you do not want your information shared with third party marketers;
- we utilize third party service providers to provide products, services or functions on our behalf (such as sending emails or processing credit cards or fulfilling subscriptions), and ask these service providers to agree to maintain the confidentiality of your personally identifiable information and not to use your personally identifiable information for any reason except to carry out the purpose(s) for which we hired them;
- the entity to whom the information is disclosed is one under control of, or under common control with King (for these purposes, a company controlling 20% or more of the voting stock of another entity shall be deemed to control such entity);
- we need to protect our legal rights (for example, if we are trying to collect money you owe us);
- we must comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal or regulatory process; or
- in connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange, or other disposition (whether of assets, stock, or otherwise) of all or a portion of the business conducted by the web sites to which this policy applies.
When you voluntarily give out any personal information, like your name, mailing address, telephone number, city, or school, in chat areas or on bulletin boards, that information can be collected and used by others. They may send you messages that you don't want or that are inappropriate. We suggest that you never post this type of information in chat rooms, or other areas open to the public, for your own safety.
All areas on this site are public and not private communications. Chats and other communications by our users are not necessarily our viewpoints and should not be viewed as being endorsed by us. We have the right to remove, without notice, any inappropriate content received from a user.
Kids & Parents
This site is intended for use by those who are at least 13 years old. This site will not knowingly accept personal information from any user under 13. If parents believe that any child has accessed our system without permission, they may contact us at popeyewebmaster@hearst.com. Users under 18 should ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to us or to anyone else over the Internet.
Changes to Privacy Policy and Notice
King Features, a division of Hearst Holdings, Inc., reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time in their sole discretion effective upon posting.